Monsanto Declares a Sneaky Social Media War Against Protesters
By Daisy Luther | Set You Free News One of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of the grass roots food freedom fight is social media. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and many more networks allow people to instantly connect and provide a platform for information to be passed on exponentially. Facebook and Google are [...]
Read More →Media Now Openly Admitting The Government Controls The News
A trio of Obama scandals has forced the corporate media admit its own reports are nothing more than the government-controlled talking points and not the product of a free and open press.
Read More →What Is TPP? Biggest Global Threat to the Internet Since ACTA
By Katitza Rodriguez & Maira Sutton | EFF The United States and ten governments from around the Pacific are meeting yet again to hash out the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) on May 15-24 in Lima, Peru. The TPP is one of the worst global threats to the Internet since ACTA. Since the negotiations have been secretive from the beginning, we [...]
Read More →Google reports record spike in government requests to remove content
By Dominic Rushe | The Guardian Governments made a record number of requests for Google to remove political content in the last half of 2012, the search giant said on Thursday. The number of official requests for content to be removed jumped 26% in the final six months of 2012 compared to the start of the year, [...]
Read More →Eutelsat Israeli chief behind attack on Iran channels
PressTV The Franco-Israeli head of Eutelsat, Michel de Rosen, has begun a new wave of attacks against Iranian TV channels. In a letter to Asian and European satellite companies, de Rosen has threatened the companies to drop Iranian entertainment and news channels. In the letter obtained by Press TV, the Franco-Israeli Eutelsat chief has warned [...]
Read More →Censorship ruins UK govt.’s free speech pose
PressTV British officials’ slogan of freedom of expression seems to be not more than a mirage, as a Google censorship report shows a high number of attempts by the government to block online content, while stopping short of condemning the blasphemous anti-Islam movie. According to a Google Transparency Report that offers an overview of which [...]
Read More →China seeks to tighten Internet laws to restrict microbloggers’ activities
ANI China is likely to introduce changes to its Internet laws to restrict activity on micro blogging platforms and other online forums. According to the proposal, the changes will be introduced on ‘Internet service providers’ such as blogs, microblogs and online forums. An official statement said the proposal would help curb online illegal activities and [...]
Read More →How China’s ‘Fifty-Cent Army’ Manipulates Online Opinion
Michelle Yu The Epoch Times The number of Chinese Internet users soared to 513 million in 2011, and half of them use micro-blogging services, according to official statistics. Ever weary of this powerful new media and its implications and influence over public opinion, Chinese authorities have made tremendous efforts to gain and maintain control of the [...]
Read More →OSCE: US, UK among most censored countries
VOR A representative for freedom of the media at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said that governments across the world are posing a threat to internet freedom. The governments in the US and UK, known for their willingness to blame their political partners for violating human rights and freedoms, have turned [...]
Read More →Germany illegally removes Press TV from SES Astra
PressTV Under pressure from the German government, Munich media regulatory office (BLM) has made an illegal decision to remove Iran’s international English Channel, Press TV, from SES Astra at 19:00 local time on Tuesday. In an email sent to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) officials, Vice President of the SES Platforms Services, Stephane [...]
Read More →Microsoft censoring Windows Live Messenger chats for copyright infringement
Stephen C. Webster Raw Story Tech giant Microsoft is actively intercepting and censoring conversations in its Windows Live Messenger program, utilizing a block list to prevent users from trading links to a popular peer-to-peer media sharing website known as The Pirate Bay. While it’s not surprising that a corporate block list would include The Pirate [...]
Read More →China censors Internet reports on rumours of attempted military coup
ANI China has blocked all reports on the Internet that speculate an alleged attempted coup in the country. The move comes after online reports, which mention of tanks on the streets of Beijing and shots fired within the secure leaders’ compound the Forbidden City were being closely monitored by the international intelligence communities, including the [...]
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